Post Malone Responds to Backlash Over Hip-Hop Comments

The press tour in support of Post Malone‘s upcoming album Beerbongs & Bentleys has been… eventful, to say the least. This week, the “rockstar” gave a video interview to Polish news outlet NewOnce that resulted in the following comments on hip-hop:

“If you’re looking for lyrics, if you’re looking to cry, if you’re looking to think about life, don’t listen to hip-hop. There’s great hip-hop songs where they talk about life and they spit that real shit, but right now, there’s not a lot of people talking about shit. Whenever I want to cry, whenever I want to sit down and have a nice cry, I’ll listen to some Bob Dylan. But whenever I’m trying to have a good time and stay in a positive mood, I listen to hip-hop because it’s fun. I think hip-hop is important because it brings people together in a beautiful, happy way. Everybody’s happy.”

Twitter, and hip-hop fans, collectively lost it at Post’s remarks. Many were quick to point out the hypocrisy in a white artist making a career employing hip-hop techniques now telling his fans to disavow the genre.

Post Malone, who made a career off black culture, telling the white masses not to listen to hip hop if they are looking for good lyrics. This is why white people aren’t allowed to participate with us. They come in profit off us and then bash us. Block me if you support him.

He says hip hop today isn’t reflective so he resorts to Bob Dylan? Bob Dylan isn’t hip hop or recent. It’s like he isn’t really trying to find “real shit” in hip hop. Like maybe he doesn’t like it or relate to it.